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You’re espousing a fantasy future permanent utopia, a common article of faith among progressives.

You’re misunderstanding entirely and making a strawman argument

It works incredibly well (so far), just not for most people

The point of criticizing capitalism is to address the inherent flaws in the current system, and to supplant it with a different system that inherently limits the wealth/power of the people at “the top” of it (or if there even could be a “top”).

It definitely is a unique point in history as well, even if it rhymes with previous points and we’re still humans all along.

“Libertarians” and BaSiC eCoNoMiCs guys blame inflation on “printing money,” but they don’t like to talk about who the printed money went to, which is the real problem. Wall Street and big corporate was bailed out in 2008, that’s where the expanded money supply was concentrated into.

Always has been

That is the legacy of American freedom, my friend

You can’t exist in a solely ideological paradigm. You have to be pragmatic while working towards bending the world towards something better.

I am simply arguing that advertisements have a bad effect on society and our everyday lives. If more people cared, more could be done about it, instead of most people being unaware and/or delusional of its subconcious effects, and doing nothing about it.

You think the cookie business advertisements are no problem. I disagree, even though I ultimately believe there are much bigger problems (of course…) - This advertisement is manipulative nonsense, like the vast majority of them, and the business or the product etc. is not a cute little innocent thing.

It really must be a simulated administration just to see how much a president can get away with

It really must be a simulated administration just to see how much a president can get away with

Maybe most people are not angry enough (or aware enough) about how deceptive, manipulative, continuously invasive, and disturbing to our daily lives advertisements are. Don’t let off some business because their advertisement is “cute.” They just want you to buy their shit.

Exactly. Every company is utterly bullshitting us, even the “mom n pop cookie companies”

no it’s good

I don’t enjoy every company pretending to be super cute and trigger our buttons to sell its most likely bullshit ass product which is “honestly” most likely totally unrelated to the advertisement they are pushing in our face

Lemmy the only place where well-articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.

Oh buddy… gestures to everywhere tho

“charming” ads

“We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest.”

I don’t think they know what “honest” means

ikr? America is a land where desperate people fight each other for the entertainment of elites and speculators

won’t someone think of the rules?!

AI bots are doing what the advertising industry has honed into a science, manipulating people in a sneaky as fuck way in order to farm money from them infinitely

I see Alexa is on the LG TV, and there’s a way to turn it off in settings, but is it actually truly off when you do this (do u know)? lmao